Educational Tours
Costa Rica 2013 – Apply Now! EF Global Citizen Scholarship
**DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL NOVEMBER 15TH!** Do your students want to join us in Costa Rica this April? The 2013 EF Global Citizen Scholarship Contest is off and running, and that’s big news for your students. Suddenly, an eight-day Costa Rican adventure needs to be filled with environmentally minded high school students. Pretty exciting, Read more…
Greek Islands – Nibbling Fish, Donkeys and the Traveling Pants
After visiting Mykonos, Turkey and Patmos on my Greek cruise this past summer, the next port of call was the Island of Rhodes. Here, I took a bus tour to the town of Lindos. Lindos dates back to the 4th century BC. The town itself is built around an acropolis, upon which stand the ruins Read more…
The EF Price Guarantee
We’re incredibly excited to announce our game-changing decision to stop fee increases for our travelers. Starting with 2014 tours, The EF Price Guarantee means a student can lock in his or her price just by enrolling on a tour. So on top of guaranteeing the lowest price, now EF travelers will never have to pay Read more…
EF’s Global Student Leaders Summit in Costa Rica
Did you know that Costa Rica is just half the size of Kentucky and yet home to 5% of the world’s biodiversity? You and your students are invited to join us in this land of lush rainforests, spectacular waterfalls and towering volcanoes this April for our inaugural Global Student Leaders Summit, an innovative series of Read more…
5 Tips for First Time Group Leaders
As I’m currently planning my eighth international student tour, I’ve decided to draw from my experience and share a few quick tips for first time group leaders. 1) Educate yourself: Before you even hold your first recruitment meeting, you should do a lot of homework in order to be sure you fully understand the ins and Read more…
The First Year of College – On Us!
College is expensive, as everyone knows. But EF is going to make it much more affordable for one lucky traveler by paying for the first year—full tuition, room and board—at any school they choose. There’s still time for students to enter EF’s college scholarship giveaway, but they have to act fast. To enter, students age Read more…
EF Global Citizen Scholarship – Berlin Experience
In July 2012, 20 students from across the United States set out on a journey to Berlin, Germany to explore their identities as Global Citizens. Over the course of ten days, these EF Global Citizen Scholarship recipients explored Berlin in-depth, engaged in the local historical and political dialogue, and even played baseball with local German Read more…
5 Reasons To Be a Group Leader
In the fall of 2000, I entered in to my first year as a Spanish teacher at St. Louis High School in St. Louis, Michigan. I had taken the place of the Spanish teacher (yes, our district only has one language teacher) who retired at the end of the previous school year. I spent Read more…
Bastille Day in Paris
I remember being on a city tour in Paris once when the guide told the group, “do you know that we French don’t call it Bastille Day……we know it as July the 14th.” Despite the lack of title the 14th is, naturally, an important national holiday and recalls the day in 1790 when the first Read more…
Great Britain in 5 Photos, with London and Stonehenge
In two days’ time, I will be going on a walking tour of Ireland organized by Go-Ahead Tours, EF Educational Tours’ adult travel division. I recruited a small group of adults to travel with me and we will be part of a larger group of independent travelers on our 11-day tour of Ireland. After traveling Read more…
